George "Junior Republic" Honors Thurgood Marshall
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January 27, 1955
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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397
THURGOOD MARSHALL
Director and Counsel
ROBERT L. CARTER
Assistant Counsel
ARNOLD DE MILLE
Press Relations
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN
President
WALTER WHITE
Secretary
ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Vv
Treasurer
GEORGE "JUNIOR REPUBLIC” HONORS THURGOOD MARSHALL
January 27, 1955
NEW YORK.--Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, shared honors with Chief Justice Earl
Warren and Vice-President Richard Nixon, in receiving the annual
Honorary Citizenship - Distinguished Service Awards from the George
‘Junior Republic", last Monday.
Chief Justice Warren, Vice-President Nixon and Mr. Marshall were
honored for having "done the most to help preserve democracy for
America's youth,”
Mr, Marshall was cited by the George "Junior Republic" for his
outstanding work in civil rights at a dinner at the Westbury Hotel.
The George "Junior Republic" is a youth community where young
people below voting age are entrusted with the responsibilities and
privileges of citizenship, Teen-age citizens learn the basic princi-
ples of democracy by actually running their own government in its
executive, legislative and judicial functions through their own elec-
ted and appointed officials,
Others who have received Distinguished Cit izenship awards in
past years are: The Honorable Thomas E, Dewey, Henry Ford II,
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Honorable Herbert Hoover, Judge David Pine,
Ambassador Warren R, Austin, Judge Harold R. Medina and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt,
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